Communist night torture

My comment on the article Belarus protests: It’s hard to sleep hearing  the screams of people being tortured by Patryk Jaracz in The Times, 18 August 2020. You need to distinguish between the grotesque and the reality. The article is grotesque. My father was a prisoner in the Brest citadel in 1945. Cries of men … Read more

Politruk’s speech

My comment on Michael Binyon’s Belarus has gone its own way without the fires of nationalist rage in The Times, 22 August 2020. The author writes about his visit to Belarus in 1967. I was denied permission to see my relatives in 1984. The author was clearly acceptable to the Communist authorities. I was not. … Read more

Red Army Street

I recorded this ride on the Red Army Street, ulica Armii Czerwonej, in Krosno Odrzańskie, Crossen and der Oder, on 2 May 2016. Isn’t this interesting and important that Communist street names have been left unchanged in this town? Their presence contradicts the official narrative about the collapse of Communism. The names were changed in … Read more

Grandpa Frost

My comment on The Times view on the Belarus protests: Lukashenko at Bay, 18 August 2020. This is kids’ stuff. Political technologists in Belarus and elsewhere in the Eastern Bloc are laughing their heads off. It works every time. Western analysts and newspaper editors can’t get enough of it and each time they believe the … Read more

Communist modus operandi

My comment on the opinion article This is Belarus’s moment — let’s back it by Edward Lucas in The Times, 17 August 2020. It is one of those articles telling readers that noise is a signal. There is no difference of interest between Lukashenka and the ‘opposition’. The conflict about vote counting is fake. Communist … Read more

On mechanics and engineering of Communist academic management

Polish version of the text: O mechanice i inżynierii komunistycznego zarządzania uczelnią. On 25 September 1963, the Polish Communist daily Trybuna Ludu printed the list of about fifty newly nominated university professors. The decision was signed by members of the State Council, with this collective body playing the role similar to that of the president … Read more

Conservation of lawlessness in Poland

The third of my comments following Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum, review: a querulous and flawed analysis of Europe by Philip Johnston in The Telegraph, 26 July 2020. Lech Borkowski 31 Jul 2020 2:07AM In September 2011, at the time when Anne Applebaum’s husband was Foreign Minister in the Donald Tusk government, Polish authorities … Read more

Narrative invariance

My comment on the article Polish populists are rocked by liberal surge at ballot box by Maria Wilczek in The Times, 29 June 2020. The narrative of the public life in Poland in general is presented in the Communist mode. This is essentially the narrative of self-appointed prison authorities explaining their role as guardians of … Read more

98.92 percent of the vote

My comment on the article Poland on brink of a new, pro-EU politics by Maria Wilczek in The Times, 28 June 2020. This is merely a spectacle about elections and democracy pretending to be the real thing. It is not. It is useful to refresh the memory somewhat. The first so-called ‘non-Communist’ Polish PM in … Read more

Faking democracy in Poland

My second comment on the article Polish president looks for US troops to give him edge in election by Oliver Moody and Maria Wilczek in The Times, 26 June 2020. In Poland, there is a democratic spectacle, but there is no democracy. There was no democracy since WWII. The title of the article claims that … Read more

Empty spectacle of elections in Poland

My comment on the article Polish right is dismantling democracy, Lech Walesa warns by Oliver Moody and Maria Wilczek in The Times, 26 June 2020. This is an empty spectacle presented as the ‘real thing’. There is no political difference and no difference of interest between the people mentioned in the article, just like there … Read more

Sergei Khrushchev’s obituary in The Telegraph

My comment on Sergei Khrushchev, son of Soviet leader Nikita who ended up swearing allegiance to America – obituary in The Telegraph, 22 June 2020. Both Sergei Khrushchev and his father Nikita Khrushchev lived at the center of the Soviet dictatorship, built it and served it to the best of their ability. Millions of people … Read more

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